“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their…
Two weeks ago, I removed the Facebook mobile app from my iPhone. Here’s what drove that…
Do you ever find yourself feeling like you have no idea what you’re doing, that you’re a fake, and that any accomplishments people attribute to you are setting up a false ideal of what you’re capable of? Do you ever get…
What is gratitude? The perfect definition of gratitude would be, “ the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness.” Do you realize how much power a simple “Thank You” holds? According to a study, the person expressing…
Comment donner du sens à son parcours professionnel ? Comment se réapproprier une trajectoire de vie…
IRONDEQUOIT, N.Y. — From across the room I can hear Emma breathing, as she stretches her leg behind her…
based on personal experiences, i can say the most well meaning people/friends/family with the…
I showed up for my Freshman year of college interested in starting my own business before I graduated, and then my peers beat a bit of that spirit out of me.
Four simple words, and my life came crashing down.
Media industry layoffs happen all the time… to other people, not to you. You work in social media, you’ll be fine. Those teams are growing, not shrinking. You’re safe.
I first scaled Afadjato in 2005. Back then, when I was young and nimble-footed. When I had the strength and stamina of a mountain goat. A billy mountain goat to be precise. Jumping from one rock to another with dexterity and precision.
Six weeks ago, my family and I (3 people and 3 dogs) temporarily traded our spacious home and land in Tennessee for a…
“Go, go. Get the cardboards. Can’t you see how the mosquitoes are all over the saab? Go go."
Sometimes you experience moments that open your eyes to meaningful things and the world’s empathetic hand of truth reaches out and grabs your soul.
You immerse yourself in it and you can feel the power of bringing people…
Warning: Sudden change ahead
“In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness…” — Kahlil Gibran
Six years ago, my roommate Kate gave me Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet as she was preparing to move back to Boston. At the time I was sad she was leaving our shared space and skeptical of the slim…
What scares you? Some people talk about doing one thing a day that scares them…
Offered at the close of one era and the beginning of another.
This past Friday, April 15, was my last day at a job I’d held for 4 1/2 years. Next Monday, April 25, I start a new gig.
There are 24 hours in a day, apart from sleeping how many of those hours are we making most use of? Money is just the…
My road to office is a pretty smooth one (from Delhi standards). Takes me around 35 mins to reach and it’s a fairly uninterrupted ride.
Occasionally, we get stuck. Maybe a truck broke down, or someone hit someone else.
Some thoughts on life from the start of a new year.
There’s a good chance every human understands the importance of self improvement, being the best “you” possible. However not everyone gets to be the best version of themselves. I would dare to say, there are people living a life that is no resemblance of how they think life should be.
My practice of direct gratitude. A glimpse into the many grateful moments I had this weekend.
This Friday was a mess but what I can say about Friday is that it will not have a hold on me. Moving along, I had a fantastic weekend. Saturday started with the Vaisahki Festival in Vancouver and I went with some friends to enjoy…
Después de visitar Lomas Taurinas y recorrer un poco Tijuana, mi prima me llevó a un punto que desde hace tantos años me intrigaba: La línea…
If you read Saturday’s blog, seeing this title today might raise an eyebrow. After all that…
Dear friend,
Maybe I’ve known you for years, maybe our interactions have limited to a quick glance in the hallways, maybe you just decided to hit send friend request because you thought you knew me. Either way, our lives have crossed paths and we’ve come to acknowledge each other…
So here I was on a Saturday night. It was one of those days, seemed like a joke, white pants and my period, a hard bang to my funny bone, (never funny!), and then I got sauced! Scalding hot marinara all over my hand. I sat down with a drink, looked at the date and my eyes…
Fate of the Union - [video]
This post is part of my 30 day creative writing challenge. Click here to learn more about the challenge or…
It’s 12:46 am on an average Thursday night. An average Thursday night filled with casual online shopping for expensive clothing I’ll never buy, procrastinating the barrage of studying and homework I’m supposed to be doing, and watching the endless Youtube videos of beauty gurus…
When I was little and we drove through the CBD of Cape Town, I would peep out the car window and stare at the tallest…
I remember the first time “tomorrow is past” dropped in my mind, that was sometime in July 2015, I had just been made the Project Manager in a small organization, we were to come up with a theme for a symposium that was to be held for high school students, I called my team mates together and I…
So I have a confession to make.. I am a solo movie goer.
I’m not ashamed of this, in fact I think it’s something that should be heralded! It all started for me about 15 years ago when I was unemployed and needed to…
April 18, 2016
A lot of times we accept the people that are in our lives because they are family, or friends we’ve loved, but we’ve outgrown them. DO YOU! Continue to grow! Find the people who think and love and work and play like…
The Spice Girls once said: “Too much of something is bad enough”. And then added: “Too much of nothing is…
by Geoffrey B. Ives
The other day I had an interesting talk to a very dear friend of mine. I was taking…
I stopped wearing my watch about fifteen weeks ago. Constantly checking the time hightened my already crippling anxiety. It didn’t seem worth it anymore, waiting for the second hand to change the minute hand, alerting me another hour of my life passed. What was the point? The problem is — time doesn’t…
Please Live your Life Unscientifically
The scientific method consists of observation, data, tests and theories. Uniqueness is unscientific, as is a life lived uniquely.
TODAY’S MENU: That is the question…
No, I don’t mean cow-tipping. I’m southern but there are some things about my culture that I refuse to embrace. Not that I don’t know many fine folks who do cow-tip, mind you. Don’t forget, reference my…
What follows in an excerpt from The New Music Industry: Adapting, Growing, and…
If I die today, i will regret on each and every single second I waisted in satisfying people rather than satisfying my own self. But I will be happy because this tiresome journey will come to an end. ☺
Our lives can be so complex that identifying a starting point into minimalism might seem a little daunting. Where exactly do…
We’re all fighting our own demons here — giving off a happy, chirpy, reserved, arrogant, careless or selfish vibe on the outside, while hiding within us is an ocean of struggle and constant worry.
Really excited with the new goal setting feature that Google has come up with.
The feature in itself is not new and was a major reason I downloaded Sunrise (acquired by Microsoft and now sunset (pun not…
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Father Giles Bello tells a story of two frogs who fell in pails of cream sitting side by side. Both frogs splashed in agony as they tried…
Finally we have emerged into the light after our slumber in a very dark tunnel. Autumn and winter may…
As a growing startup intrigued by the potentials of IoT, we wake up in the morning excited about our game plan. What drives us is a…
Ce que je ne sais pas
Cette étrangeté dont je m’en rappelle pas
C’est ce sentiment
Que je ressens
Aussi triste qu’il soit
I ‘ve always had a drive to go out and do crazy insane things other people deemed impossible. It excited it me when…
“Power: Ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.” -Dictionary.com
As women we’re always told that we possess this thing called “power”. I’ve never been convinced of such a thing mostly because I have never been able to define what this so called power…
I’ve spent the last two weekends with midlife women. The first group I had known for 40 years. These…
The key to making this work is delayed gratification, something we seem to find difficult these days. Finding ways to keep your bills low enough to do this is one of those things successful people often have to do along the way — knowing that when they do get there they’ll have the freedom and means to do more.
Day 19 — Making good of small promises
“We should meet up”
“Let’s have a coffee”
“I’m always around for a chat”
I’ve heard those phrases a lot over the past couple of weeks and believe me, I’m thankful for them. Life isn’t just about the solo ride…
My life got infinitely easier the day a group of doctors told me I had cancer and, they suspected, less than three months to live. It was as if a big weight had lifted from my shoulders. Gone were the big expectations — a fancy house, kids…
Solo chi sogna impara a volare. Tra il punto di partenza ed il punto d’arrivo c’è il viaggio. La vera…
Everybody wants to accomplish a valuable thing. This can be a great project at work, teach…
We push feelings aside…not just romantic ones. It is human instinct. A good friend always tells me to breathe…address the feelings and breathe through them, they will pass.
Today, I re-mind myself that we all can make a difference in the world if we try. And so it is that I ask this day and each day forward that I may be a conduit for good and change in the world. I set my intent to make a difference, first on the smaller scale of…
AWESOME! I take cold showers alot and it helps me feel more energized throughout the day. What are the benefits and downsides to this (apart from women ofc) ;)
This time last year, I realised I was stuck in my life. Over the previous few years, I had taken the plunge into the unknown by leaving a secure job and going to…
LEARN
We learn from everything, every action and from everyone that crosses our paths.
He’s got a nice car, nice big house, a Rolex and wears nice suits every day attending important…
I thought I really embraced and respected the word “perspective” until my recent vacation to Cabo San Lucas. It was our company’s annual incentive trip for our top performers. I’ve been extremely blessed to have been on this trip for the last 15 years and still never…
Most people think that all you need to do in filming is placing the camera at the right place the camera will do most of the work for you, but let me tell you that there is a lot more than that. Filming, from my experience has a lot to do with preventing potential errors. These errors can be…
Good people encourage me to live my dreams even in a world where most let their fears stop them. I have always been one to work outside the box.
I recently realized that Events that happen in the world and all around us really only affect…
This past weekend I stood at my local subway station and held a sign that said “Free Compliments”. It was a great experience and I made several people smile, but what has really stuck with me from doing this was a question I got asked by someone for whom English was not their first…
There is no doubt — divorce it extremely tough for an ex wife, ex-husband, children of divorce, and even beyond the immediate family. There are unique challenges for a male in divorce (as…
I’ve got some good news.
One of Bellingham’s Secret Sanctuary
Dealing with high levels of anxiety forces you to find ways to deal with these high levels, and for my place I wanted to look further into the anxiety-reliever areas that are around me. The arboretum, a huge forest like area behind the WWU campus, in general is a great place to clear your…
I spent yesterday afternoon painting pottery with a great friend. Our friendship is pretty new. It’s funny because we have known each other for quite some time, but we never pursued a friendship simply because we both had bad experiences with girl friendships in our younger years.
is a life-long process
to accept
Well that was certainly…. Long. Is that why you failed to include a single refererence to ANY of the “facts” you assert above? Just too long?
Because in my experience anyone who claims to have done “exhaustive research” that can be trusted also knows to include references. Rather than expecting people to just accept what you…
Four years ago I started a design school. Initially, I enrolled as many others, because of my passion for drawing. Since then we have been introduced to the most common graphic software, we had some lessons about typography, printing, web design basics…
Lot of mixed thoughts are running in mind as to what to start writing with. I’m on a vacation surrounded by happy people, no-patience people, little-not-satisfied people, inertly-angry people, want-more-from-life people, I-want-to-be-heard-people and the observant.
The best way to make a big change in your life is when you have some proof that situation B is better than situation A. Quitting your job (A) because you want to chase your dream (B), doesn’t sound like a solid plan of a better position than before.
I don’t even begin to know where to start, you’ve shared so much detailed and uniquely precise knowledge about yourself while, at the same time, letting the reader step back and make comparisons to a larger understanding of some elements/aspects of autism.
I’ve given a lot of thought to this.
There are always moments in your life, when there is someone who is likely to put you in a box and label you.
Got to be strong, if you got to prove them wrong,Got to be strong.
Got to be strong, to climb those mountains, to be at the top,Got to be strong.
The Social Traveller
What is this travel bug that everyone is bitten by? There are articles and opinions pouring in from all corners. It makes you feel that if you haven’t traveled, you have done zilch in your life. And they make it seem so easy to just pack your bags and be off to exotic places and do things that you have…
My Grandfather was a shitty divorce attorney in a small farming town in present-day…
What’s driving you and your everything?
Take a look at your tabs and window right now. No seriously — do it.
I wake up in the middle of the night and I feel like I am dying. It is a constant war on the inside of my mind and body. My heart is racing, but there is nothing here and I am in no danger. Sometimes people don’t understand and they think that I can just turn it off. “Go back to bed Kerri.” My world is tightening around me and I am suffocating. I…
JEDI TRAINING by Justin Wade
This is some students in my group now- a real life Jedi academy
It is a weird feeling and I find it hard to wait. The atmosphere between my host-mom and I is getting heavy. I feel stupid and embarrassed. I don’t feel like I have done my job good enough. I’ve done stupid things and not opened my mouth about it being affraid of the judgement and criticism. But…
Last month I finished reading the book “the life-changing magic of tidying up” by Marie Kondo. I thought…
When we try to measure the predictability index of life, we stop living in the present and which may not be good for us. At that moment when we hear about some news about someone whether be it a good one or other wise, we compare the past and judge our predictability accordingly…
Decisions
Don’t all of us have that moment/s where you have to make a presumably important decision at some point in your life?
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I was once bound, I was once broken, I was once lost in the dark without a way out.
I cannot say I free, I cannot say I am healed, I cannot say that I have found my way.
I have some life changing news that you will hate.
Many people have such low self-esteem and confidence in their own abilities they constantly let outside forces derail them and send them into a downward spiral. The best person to…
It’s moving day today! Vicky and I are moving to our new home today and we’ll start the process of settling in.
I think change is exciting. I’ve always welcomed it in my life.
Great points Duane. I’m a big fan of the so-called “lifestyle business.” When my fiance and I started our business, we had a simple goal…”make a living doing something we enjoy, that will allow us to do whatever we want to do, whenever we want to do it.” It sounds hokey, but honestly, that’s what we drove for and acheived. We get asked all the time…
It’s interesting. I don’t necessarily disagree with the “slow and steady” approach advocated in the article, but I come away bothered by the idea of being overly cautious and only taking the path of least resistance.
I think life is complicated enough that there’s no single formula that works for every occasion or situation…
It has taken doing a course in Iyengar Yoga, for me to realise that by commitment and practice, that it is possible to gain the ‘shape’ I’ve been longing for. After putting in 20 hours (or 20 weeks) I can see changes in the top half of my physique, and I am surprised. So much so, that I’m determined to do another two months and what more effects it…
It’s natural to find ourselves in a low-energy space once in a while. Sometimes we may want to honor that feeling and explore…
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains
Jean Jacques Rousseau
My back deck last year, along with one of our cats, Baldur. -RPF A couple of…
Thanks Darius for your article, great stuff. I believe that a strong sense of self-acceptance and self-esteem helps us set a firewall around our vulnerable cores so that we can seperate what to accept in as valuable and what to keep out as trash.
Humbled and honored to be included in such esteemed company, R. ❤
Where is the heart? It doesn’t seem like anyone puts heart into what they do anymore. We go through the motions hoping that we’ll “accidentally” do something of value. That we will stumble across importance. That doesn’t happen. Value and importance are illusive creatures that don’t give up…
This is a great article. I like to read stuff like this on a daily basis. Sometimes you have a pile of stuff to attend to, but because you believe there’s always a better time to do it, you ended up wasting your time doing trivialities while leaving the most important things undone.
Great article I must say.
For sometime now we’ve all lived in a flat world. Location means very little when we…
A few additional background notes. Steve Jobs was already worth $1 million when he was 23 in 1978 ($3.7 million in 2015 dollars) and $10 million when he was 24. When Apple offered its IPO in December 1980 — a full four years before the introduction of the Mac — his net worth instantly zoomed up to $100 million, which is the equivalent of $290.7…
Overly Dedicated to Everyone But Me.
I know a bit about sailboats. Powerboats? Not so much. I own a 23’ Proline center console, fishing boat…
It is tough becoming a new parent. All we knew about our parents becomes something of a puzzle all of a sudden. We realize somethings that they did and to me , many that they can never get back. I have forgiven my mom as she has forgiven my many mistakes in life. Like you she was my reason on becoming very vulnerable and insecure. I thought I was…
The question is ‘How can I serve?’ There is so much going on in the world paralleled to the desire for so much material gain that we are in complete disharmony with nature and the universe. I know that I am guilty of this. But a big shift occurred when I shifted my question to how do I get this or that to how do I serve. It’s a bigger and more…
The infamous playground boundary story goes a little something like this.
The school yard had built a nice fence to separate the playground from the sidewalk and road. During recess (when that actually existed), kids would play all over…
Growing up and for most of my life I have always been the quiet shy guy, if you wanted to get to know me you had to start the conversation. It’s not that i didn’t want to talk to people its just that i was more comfortable being in my own shell of a world, I…
The opinion piece article that I analysed for this weeks entry was written by Louise O’Neill and was on the Irish Examiner’s website on the 16th of April. The headline was “The conflation of anorexia with vanity is misguided. Believe…
Bill was truly a rare breed. I am glad he was your friend and losing him must leave a hole in your heart that is hard to fill now. But thank you for sharing your story with us and may Bill’s memories and goodness live in in you and your family. Take care and keep the faith!
Great
Allyson “Clarity” Hester thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail six months after breaking her back in a motorcycle crash. Now she works as a ridgerunner for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and helps to ensure the safety and preparedness of Appalachian Trail users and hopeful thru-hikers. From puppy rescues on top of thirsty mountains to moments of…
well , what do you mean by Mr. my way ??? sometimes you have to be it you know !! life is full of events . some are planned and some are unexpected . but one thing is common , we get to learn something when we go through the event .
What do you usually do when you feel anxious, stressed, overwhelmed or angry?
I went hiking in winter with 3 friends, one from a city, one a suburb and another from a township. We received small baby tubs to wash ourselves as there was no river nearby. They didn’t know what to do with the tubs. We ate soup everyday; they were…
I am up at 4 this morning, thoughts churning, heart heavy, mind too full to sleep. Momma anxiety attacks me and I can’t let it be-no amount of deep breathing, tossing and turning or glancing at the clock will help. I need to get up.
Spring — A New Beginning
Spring is here! The trees are budding, the birds are singing, and there are tell-tale signs everywhere reminding us of the hope for…
Do what you must… as you’re not trying to hurt anyone, it should be your call how you live your life.
Let me share a story of a person whose name we’ll call Steve. His close friends often remarked despite his many great qualities, he is very stubborn. Co-workers, neighbors, others who knew Steve over the years…
Amen to all of that!
Well I hope get a job.
On this episode Richard talks about responsibility, being true to yourself and leading by example.
Nice
Great read to start the morning. Look forward to listening to Unthinkable today - while attempting to achieve the perfect balance of craft & result in the shortest period of time possible.
I felt liberated there for a second as I pulled my head out the car window and yelled “asshole” while holding up the middle finger at the jerk that just zoomed right in front of me without signaling. It wasnt very lady-like of me but i could also say it wasnt very…
If you never try, how will you ever know?
#keep_trying
Exactly what we keep telling our students. The fear of failure is either so high that they stress out about every little grade or, on the flip side, that they don’t give a damn. They are constantly caught up in what the rubric is of an assignment. As my co-instructor, Mike says, there is no rubric to life. Your boss isn’t going to tell you what grade…
Really well written;
Something everyone who is getting increasingly frustrated at his or her 9–5 job must read — before as we say — Taking the Leap.
But one must make a conscious point not minding the day-job becoming a second priority
This is something I am facing right now. I work in a decent corporate and earn decent amount. I am 24 years old and people my age are pursuing different paths just because they think there won’t be a time again because responsibility will increase. I think that is true some way but it shouldn’t make yourself doubt what you are doing right now. If you…
Makes me wonder if this is how our creator feels.
